Music man …

… Randy Newman interview. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I wonder whether all audiences have 'got' his biting irony. "Sure, I have had bad gigs where they didn't get what I was trying to do," Newman says. "There are millions of people I can't play to. My music is not what music of the 21st century is about, not what people use music for. It's a funny choice to see me because a lot of people want love songs, just moving back and forth. What people feel in general is (a) rhythm and (b) love, and both of them interest me less than character. It sounds boring, and maybe it is, and maybe I am, but that's what I like."